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Rosa Parks

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

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"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

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"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."

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"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead."

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Amber Hurdle

"He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul."

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"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."

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"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

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"Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child."

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Amber Hurdle

"People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's not that I can't remember. It's that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it."

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Amber Hurdle

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

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"It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working."
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"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
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"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."
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"My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work."
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"At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in."
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Rosa Parks
"Each person must live their life as a model for others."
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"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome."
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"I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen."
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"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
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"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
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